Strobe Spin Art

ABSTRACT

Stobe Spin Art is a new Apparatus for making traditional Spin Art, that employs precise stroboscopic Illumination upon a spinning substrait, held safely captive in an appropriate platen, such that the spinning substrait, timed to stroboscopic illumination of specific luminosity and duration appears still to the Artist&#39;s eye during the artistic process, allowing that artist to create, observe, modify, and finish their work of art in real time. That artistic process uses a variety of pigments, specific to individual substraits, and employs specifically designed depositors, including deposition pattern dies, for different creative effects. Substraits will vary as will their specific pigments, (paints, inks, dyes, and glazes, etc.) depending upon the application, specific to the substrate. The Apparatus will feature the use of U.V. curable pigments, and a safe U.V. Interlock to quickly cure the artist&#39;s finished work of art into a smear free take home masterpiece.

BACKGROUND OF INVENTION

Once upon a time in the past, Spin Art was a County Fair activity staple, an array of drums, each holding a motor, and a frame that could hold a pre-cut clay-coated chip-board rectangle. An operator would start the motor, allowing artist to pour paints onto the spinning rectangle from a safe distance. Spin Art appeared as a blurring disc during the creative process. Only when the spinning rectangle finally stopped, could the artist view their work.

Spin Art of the used volatile, industrial paints to speed the drying process, in order to offer the customer a quick-dry mastepiece. Spin Art met its demise when new environmental regulations stopped the use of volatile solvent type paints around humans. The toy industry then developed low power spin art toys using safe non-toxic paints, and card stock.

Strobe Spin Art is a new apparatus, specifically in the way it makes visible the artistic process of deposition of pigments upon a rotating substrate, in its use of precise synchronous stroboscopic illumination to interpolate the rotating substrate into an apparent null state of rotational moment, allowing the artist to view the artwork they are making in real time, as a static image,and not as a spinning blur.

Strobe Spin Art is designed to accommodate a variety of pigments, and paints, as well as dye stuffs, glazes, etc., deposited upon rotating substraits using a variety of depositors designed to work in conjunctionand a variety of substraits, ceramic, organic or synthetic.

Strobe Spin Art is designed to illuminate across the visible spectrum, including UV portions of the spectrum for effects.

Strobe Spin Art allows the artist to view their substrate from a variety of angles, as well as Portrait, and Landscape, in classic artistic terms.

Strobe Spin Art is designed to safely accommodate UV curing Inks, Dyestuffs, and Paints into the process, and to safely cure deposited materials upon selected substrates using defined spectral light, including UV light.

Storobe Stop Art can be programmed to time the arrival of pigments/dyestuffs onto defined areas of the substrate offering more precision control of deposition, and the process for making art.

Strobe Stop Art is an Apparatus is about the visual experience of making art, as well as a Method for making works of artistic endeavor.

Brief Descriptions of Components of the Invention

Reference: See Drawings, Pages

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1: A Cover such that the artwork pigments can cure, light-safe under proper UV Curing light, and that can be removable for the artistic process, and extractions of finished artwork from the platen.

2: Individual Depositors, Adapter, Positionable Depositor Wheel, Programmable Depositors, single pigment, or pigment mixture Wand with low power laser pointers, to target, and deposit pigments, upon the spinning artwork substrate in a safe, clean, and precise manner.

3. A Top, such that the cover can be attached, and locked into positions that allow the operator access to the platin, to place or remove the substrate, as well as safely affix the deposited pigments onto the chosen substrate

4: UV Curing lamp, such that the finished artwork can be affixed,or cured to the substrate in a safe, controllable, and expeditious manner.

5: Stroboscope Lamp such that the spinning Substrait appears static, in rotation to the artist, so that the artist can create a work of art made visible by the phenomonon of precise Stroboscopic illumination.

6: A tray, or platen such that a substrate can be held securely, in rotation over a variety of revolutions per minute, and that can be exchanged with a variety of other shaped and sized platens to accommodate a variety of substrates, in material or in shape .

7: The Synchronization of Motor to Stroboscope such that a transmission-/reflection type photoelectric pickup, proximity switch, or an electromagnetic pickup can coordinate the illumination of the rotating platin in a precise, intense short burst of illumination per revolution.

8: An Electric Motor, direct, or stepped such that it can spin the platin, can vary in speed or rotational direction, (clockwise, or counter-clockwise) in continuous rotation, or in a defined angular arc of movement over a defined period of time.

9: A Control Console, programmable, such that the Electric Motor, and Stroboscope Lamp can be programmed to operate over a variety of time periods arc movements, or rotational speeds,through component inputs and outputs to the Apparatus, and the components of the apparatus.

10. A Splash Shield, such that excess paint thrown off by centripetal forces can be safely contained,.

11. A Stand, such that the artist can create their work of art in a comfortable, and safe manner.

12. Wireless Remote Control Panel via application or adaptive software.

Brief Descriptions of Components and Function of the Invention

Reference: See Drawings, Pages

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13. The spinning substrait as it is seen without the illumination of precise Stroboscopic illumination.

14. The spinning substrait, now appearing still, in Landscape mode, by precise stroboscopic illumination upon the substrait, timed by the controller (FIG. 9).

15. The spinning substrait in Portrait mode, by precise stroboscopic illumination.

16. A schematic indicating that through the controller (FIG. 9), the angle of view of the substrait can can be adjusted to the artist's preference.

17. The Manifold Depositor Blending Wand and the reservoir of pigments held in the Stand (FIG. 11) allow for a programmable hue, in tint, tone, and shade as per the needs of the artist

18. The Blending Wand, in sectional orthographic side view indicating the blending

19. The Programmer, in application format to control precise pigment flow to the Blending Wand for the desird hue, its tint, tone, or shade.

20. Schematic indicating the Programmer (FIG. 9), its inputs, and outputs, as well as the Apparatus components that make up the apparatus

21. Programmenr Control Panel, wireless application type for tablet/phone

22. Programmer hard wired to the Apparatus

23. The Apparatus in its scalable formats, Tabletop scale for smaller substraits

24. The Standing Apparatus, for larger size substraits

25. The Large Standing Apparatus for large format substraits

Brief Descriptions of Components and Function of the Invention

Reference: See Drawings, Pages

Figure

2-1 Depositor long reach handle for individuals who may not be able to reach the depositors

2-2 Depositor array, a carousel of six syringe-type depositors, aligned with the laser targeting light

2-3 Hand Depositors, that use the syringe-type depositors, each offering a laser targeting light, and a variety of deposition dies, (dot, spray thin, thick, etc.).

2-4 Programmable depositors that resease pigment timed to impact the spinning substrait at a precise moment in rottion.

2-5 Modified commeial depositors equipped with laser target light, and optional adjustible pattern deposition dies.

2-6 Low power pointer-type lasers to allow the artist accurate positioning of pigment upon the substrait.

Orthographic View, Elevation with Human figures for Scale NOTE: Reference to Strobe Spin Art Drawings, Page 2

Description of Drawing on P: Strobe Spin Art, Apparatus, Freestanding model and two human scale figures, offered as to the scale to the Invention. FIGS. 1-12 in the drawing are the components and their arrangements in the Apparatus.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

Strobe Spin Art is a new invention, a take on spin art that uses the phenomonon of stroboscopic light to make visible to the artist what happens in Spin Art when pigment impacts the substrait as it rapidly rotates in the platen.

The component form is suprisingly simple and can be made with basic hand tools and available sub-components such as an electric motor, direct or stepping, (FIG. #8) strobe lights of suitable brillance, (FIG. #6), U.V. curing lighting of appropriate curing wavelength, (FIG. #5) for the chosen U.V. curable pigment.

From the bottom, up and outside in, a detailed description of the Invention, Strobe Spin Art

The Apparatus is housed in a container, (FIG. #11) at a height that can accommodate most individuals who wish to use the apparatus.

That container will house all sub-components that make up the Apparatus., as well as a a sub-container (fig. #10that can retain the excess pigments that are thrown off, as part of the artistic process

The component form will include an appropriat sensor target that is connected to the motor's shaft , (FIG. #7)and an emitter/detector of an electro-optical, or electro-mechanical type that can measure accurate rotational speeds, and that can accuritely trigger the stroboscopic flash with each rotation, no mater the RPM.

The motor will have to accommodate a series of platens that are designed to hold a specific type of substraits, and needs to handle the torque loads appropriate to the substrait, and platen.

The component form of the apparatus places the strobescopic illumination between the artist, and substrait so that only the substrait is illuminated.

The Control Panel (FIG. #11) of the appratus is a series of electronic components that allows the artist, or operator to adjust the rotational speed, of the platen, or its viewing angle, such as Portrait, or Landscape or any 0-90 degree angle, of view.

Note: For this to work, your flash pulse rate must be extremely short duration, and of high luminosity to capture the spinning substrate, precisely, to render it static in appearance.

Isometric, Exploded View of Apparatus Components NOTE: Reference to Strobe Spin Art Drawings, Page 3

Description of Drawing: Strobe Spin Art, Apparatus, Freestanding Model Exploded View The Apparatus components (FIG. 1-12 are shown in an exploded view to better understand the the individual components and their arrangement in the Apparatus

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

Strobe Spin Art allows the artist to deposit pigments in a substrait, a traditional method of creating art, only in this case the artist is depositing non-volitle pigments in a safe manner upin the spinning substrait.

An Operator will assist the artist by positioning the substrait in the apparatus, operating the apparatus as the artists deposits pigments on the now spinning substrait, made viewable as still, by the illumintion of precisely timed stroboscopic light upon the substrait, and follows through with the U.V. curing process using prescribed safety measures to deliver a dry, smear-free work of art.

Safety Interlocking Top NOTE: Reference to Strobe Spin Art Drawings, Page 4

Description of Drawing: Safety Interlocking top and cover used during the curing process of U.V. curable pigments in a light tight environment.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The use of safe U.V. curable pigments allow the artist to expedite the drying process associated with traditional art and spin art, but the curing process must be kept contained due to the powerful frequency of the U.V. illumination.

The Interlocking top is designed to shut down the U.V. light if accidently opened.

Electro-mechanical and Electronic Components of the Invention NOTE: Reference to Strobe Spin Art Drawings, Page 5

Description of Drawing: Electro-mechanical, and electronic Components of the Invention, separated by the houssing and cover components (seen in gray).

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

A reiteration of the components that are the Invention's function, to spin a substrait, to illuminate the substrait with precise timed stroboscopic light per rotation no matter the RPM, and to safely cure or dry the U.V. pigments when used.

Electro-mechanical and Electronic Components of the Invention

NOTE: Reference to Strobe Spin Art Drawings, Page 6

Description of Drawing: Electro-mechanical, and electronic Components of the Invention, separated by the houssing and cover components (seen in gray).

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

A reiteration of the components that are the Invention's function, to spin a substrait, to illuminate the substrait with precise timed stroboscopic light per rotation no matter the RPM, and to safely cure or dry the U.V. pigments when used.

Schematic: Component Function of Synchronous Stroboscopic Illumination upon a Rotating Substrate NOTE: Reference to Strobe Spin Art Drawings, Page 6

Description of Drawing: Strobe Spin Art, Apparatus, with drawings indicating what is seen without, and with the precise timed illumination of stroboscopic light upon the spinning substrait, rendering the substrait as a still image, and not a spinning blurr.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The platin, (FIG. 7) shown with a substrate, would appear in rotation as a blur, (FIG. 13), if not for the illuminationbof the stroboscopic light such that the substrate will appear in Landscape, (FIG. 14), Portrait, (FIG. 15), or in chosen arc, of 0-90 degrees, clock-wise, or counter clock-wise, (FIG. #16), in synchronous activity as controlled by the Control Console, (FIG. 9).

Schematic: Electro-mechanical & Electro-Optical Components of the U.V. Curing Process NOTE: Reference to Strobe Spin Art Drawings, Page 7

Description of Drawing: Strobe Spin Art, Apparatus, with drawings indicating the components that come into play when curing the U.V. pigments onto the substrait

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The Cover, (FIG. 1) and Tops (Figure3) shown with the U.V. curing lamp (FIG. 5) and Platen, with substait, (FIG. 6) indicate the components used in the U.V. curing process of the apparatus, as controlled by the Controller (FIG. 12).

Again safety in the curing process is of paramount concern as U.V. lighting of sufficient frequency for curing pigments may be hazardous to human vision and must be contained within the Apparatus in a light-tight compartment of the Apparatus.

Schematic: Electro-mechanical & Electro-Optical Components of the Rotational Assembly, and Synchronous Stroboscopic Illumination NOTE: Reference to Strobe Spin Art Drawings, Page 8

Description of Drawing: Strobe Spin Art, Apparatus, with a focus on the primary components of the Apparatus, the Strobe light (FIG. 5) the Platen with Substrait (FIG. 6), the Sensor Array, (FIG. 7), and the Motor, (FIG. 8), primary components as controlled by the controller's electronic sub-components, (FIG. 9).

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The Stroboscopic Lamp (FIG. 5) and Platen, with substrait, (FIG. 6), the Sensor Array (FIG. 7) and Motor (FIG. 8) are arranged in a manner, and illustrated to better show the primary components of the Strobe Spin Art Apparatus.

The Stroboscopic Light (FIG. 5) must provide intense even illumination of the spinning substrait, at reoccuring accurate intervals per rotation of the motor.

The Strobosciopic Light (FIG. 5) must be configured to trigger well above the flash rate associated with inducing Photosensitive epilepsy (PSE) when in use

The Sensor Array (FIG. 7) should be of a non contact design, given the rotational speeds of the Motor, (FIG. 8).

Pigment Depositors, Hand & Electronic Controlled, with Low Power Laser Target Illuminators NOTE: Reference to Strobe Spin Art Drawings, Page 9

Description of Drawing: Depositors, Hand held, affixed to the Apparatus, or Controller controlled electro-mechanical depositors, FIG. 2-1. FIG. 2-2, FIG. 2-3, FIG. 2-4, FIG. 2-5, FIG. 2-6, and Laser target pointers FIG. 2-7 offer a variety of deposit shapes and patterns upon the spinning substrait.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

FIG. 2A Allows the user who cannot reach the fixed depositor to interact with ther Apparatus.

FIG. 2B An array carousel of syringe-type precision depositors of different hues.

FIG. 2C Hand held depositors that use the syringe-type precision depositors in a variety of deposition patterns and shapes.

FIG. 2D Controller controlled depositors that precisely deposit measured amounts of pigment timed with the rotation of the spinning substrait.

FIG. 2E Modified commercial squeeze bottle depositors with adjustable pigment pattern dies (FIG. 2F) to offer a variety of deposition upon the spinning substrait

FIG. 2G Low power laser pointers, as part of the depositors, allowing the artist to accurately deposit pigment upon the spinning substrait.

Manifold Depositor NOTE: Reference to Strobe Spin Art Drawings, Page 10

Description of Drawing: Manifold Depositor (FIG. 17), with pigment reservoir and Mixer Wand, in orthographic sectional FIG. 18), and the wireless Control Panel (FIG. 19) that will allow the artist to mix and blend any number of hues, their tints, tones or shades from the reservoir of primary, and secondary pigments.

Control Console (Programmable) I NOTE: Reference to Strobe Spin Art Drawings, Page 11

Description of Drawing: Schematic of the Controller and components connected to the Controller used to set the parameters on rhe Apparatus

We see in a schematic, (FIG. 20) the Control Console, and the various components that make up the enclosed network of their electronic, electrical, mechanical, and photo-optical aspects of each individual component, and the need to program the Apparatus through a central organization module called the Control Console, that can both receive, interpret, and transmit information such that the Apparatus correctly functions, for the Artist.

As all roads lead to Rome, so is true for Strobe Spin Art, only the electronics in the control panel represent Rome, and the circuitry, as shown in the schematic (FIG. 20

Correct function for the Apparatus includes rotating a selected Substrate at a chosen rotation rate, that Substrate as if still, and in an orientation as chosen by the Artist, through the use of Synchronous Stroboscopic Illumination, allowing the Artist to observe the impact of chosen pigment(s) deposited by the artist upon the seemingly still Substrate. Then after the artistic process has been completed, the pigment that has been deposited upon the Substrate is affixed to the Substrate by means of UV illumination, changing the property of the pigment from liquid, to solid. Strobe Spin Art is an Apparatus for Making Art. It relies on components that can be programmed over a variety of programming needs, and that can communicate to the Control Console, or any hand-held electronic communication device, either individually designed to perform the specific needs of the Apparatus, or existing personal communication devices that can be adapted through an application to offer the Artist control over the artistic process, on the Strobe Spin Art Apparatus.

Control Console (Programmable) II NOTE: Reference to Strobe Spin Art Drawings, Page 12

Description of Drawing: Control Panels (FIG. 21), and (FIG. 22), hard wired or wireless used to set the parameters on rhe Apparatus.

We see in the graphic representation of the Control Console, either hard wired to the Apparatus, (FIG. 22) or wireless (FIG. 21) the ability to control the parameters of the Apparatus for entertainment, or for true artistic purposes

Scalability of the Invention NOTE: Reference to Strobe Spin Art Drawings, Pages 13, 14, & 15

Description of Drawing: The scalable of the Apparatus, in Tabletop (FIG. 23), Freestanding, (FIG. 24), and Freestanding, Large, (FIG. 25).

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

Depending upon the type and size of the Strobe Spin Art substrait, and Platin, (FIG. 6), the Strobe Spin Art Apparatus can be scaled to spin something small in size, (approximently 5″ square platen), something medium in size, (approximately 12″ square platen), and something large (a t-shirt, or pillow case, approximately 18″ square platen). 

1. An apparatus for making spin art that incorporates into its component form, the function of precise intense stroboscopic illumination of very short duration, directed upon the spinning substrait, such that the substrait appears static to the Artist, for the duration of the creative period, thus allowing that artist to create, observe, modify, and finish their work of Strobe Spin Art, viewed as a work of art and not as a blurred spinning disc of an image. 1A. An apparatus made scalable to accommodate specific substrait platen(s), in order to create small, medium, and large Spin Art art pieces. 1B. An apparatus that can accommodate the interchange of substrait platens, in order to allow the artist to create Strobe Spin Art pieces on a variety of substraits, ceramic, organic, synthetic, using safe pigments appropriate to the chosen substrait. 1C. An apparatus that delivers both a level of amusement activity, and a method for making serious works of art 1D. An apparatus that engages the stroboscope only at flash rates well above ones that may induce seizure in humans. 1E. An apparatus that is safe to use for most ages (with operator supervision)
 2. A method for making art using series of pigment depositor containers that allow the artist to direct pigment, paints, inks, glazes, and dyestuffs in a variety of stream and spray patterns upon a stroboscopic illuminated, rapidly spinning substrait, using low-power pointer lasers, attached to the depositors, to enable the artist to accurately target the spinning substrait with a low-powered laser dot as a guide. 2A. Depositer containers include modified squeze containers, mechanical depositors, and electro-mechanical depositors that can be timed to deposit pigment(s) upon the substrait at a precise time in the rotational moment of that substrait, as controlled by control panel. 2B. Depositers include multi-pigment wands to blend a broad spectrum of hues, tints, and shades to the Artist's satisfaction
 3. A method of making Strobe Spin Art that utilizes safe U.V. curable pigments, paints, inks, and dyestuffs and the Apparatus as a light safe curing container, with interlocking cover, connected to the control panel or control tablet, to ensure the curing process is light safe. 3A. An apparatus cover with saftly interlocks that can be closed and made light safe during the U.V. pigment curing process, one that will turn off if the cover is accidently lifted. 